Soda, Candy, Gum, etc. Advertising Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Great 1920's – 1930's Large, Moxie Advertising Thermometer. The painted steel sign depicts a Moxie bottle at the top with a black circle to the right reading: "DRINK MOXIE, TAKE HOME A CASE TONIGHT". Just below the color...

ARTIFACT: Great, early circa 1900's lithograph candy tin for Whitman's Super Extra Marshmallow Drops by Mersereau Lithographs. The lid of the tin reads: "SUPER EXTRA MARSHMALLOW DROPS" in a whimsical font surrounded by a scene of flying...

ARTIFACT: 1890's Curran & Joyce porcelain top embossed beer or soda bottle from Lawrence, Massachusetts. The front of the bottle reads: "REGISTERED CURRAN & JOYCE COMPANY LAWRENCE, MASS." in embossed lettering and features an embossed...

ARTIFACT: 1880's Nashua, New Hampshire "Blob Top" beer or soda bottle of bottler Nelson Lane. The bottle reads: "NELSON LANE NASHUA, N. H." in the center and beneath: "REGISTERED". The other side reads: "THIS BOTTLE NOT TO BE SOLD" in embossed detail...

ARTIFACT: Great 1919 Partola Mint Candy Laxative Tin. "The Doctor in Candy Form". The cream colored painted tin reads: "DELICIOUS – EFFECTIVE – GOOD FOR ALL – AN AID TO GOOD HEALTH – PARTOLA – THE DOCTOR IN...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1906 advertising mug made in Mettlach, Germany for Hires Root Beer. The mug is by Villeroy & Boch and has their famous abbey mark on its bottom, along with a date mark. A rosy-cheeked child is on the front beneath the slogan...

ARTIFACT: Rare 1890's Lash's Bitters "Puzzle Card" advertisement showing a Ruffian turning into a dandy. The front shows a bald and bearded, frowny man and as you open the first flap, he is wearing a tophat and monocle. When you fold the bottom flap down...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa 1880s or 1890s advertising paperweight for Winthrop M. Baker's Boston Chocolate and Bonbons of Boston, Massachsuetts. The insert reads FOR THE FINE TRADE and lists Baker's address as 490 Atlantic Avenue, Boston. The...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 worker badge for Schrafft's, a Charlestown, Massachusetts chocolate manufacturer. Schrafft's was started the same year as the Civil War began. The shield-shaped badge is by Bastian Brothers of Rochester, New York. It is...

ARTIFACT: Great 1890's Improved Order of Red Men celluloid pin by Whitehead & Hoag Co. Newark, N.J. The Pepsin Gum promotional giveaway shows an image of an axe with a stylized American Indian head opposite the blade end, the blade reads:...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 "Little Pinkies" celluloid advertising pin for the American Pepsin Gum Company by Whitehead & Hoag. There were several collectible designs for this pin: this one features a simian-featured "e;boot black...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1880 bottle wood mold for Moxie Nerve Food. Moxie was first marketed in 1878, sans carbonated water, as a medicine by Dr. Augustin Thompson of Union, Maine, and later as a soda. The bottle is in a pale green glass with wonderful...